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Since becoming the Detroit Free Press' recruiter in 1990, my work and the journalism industry have changed in unexpected ways. The transformation is rapid. One benefit is that I now learn from and help other Gannett recruiters. NewsRecruiter.com is a hub site that helps keep everything organized. It tells you what I am up to, it links to my latest work and it is a test site for new projects. My best ideas have always come from you, so please write.
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• Mondays: Cuppa Joe  • Tuesdays: News Job Café • Wednesdays: J-Schools • Thursdays: Job Hacks • Fridays: Apply With Care This is a test |
Excel is the new Word At the end of a meeting among the top editors at the Free Press, the discussion turned to how much more of our online work has to do with databases. We have always published information. Now, we need to publish, categorize and store information so that it can easily be retrieved by users, even in ways that we ourselves did not intend or imagine. We do that with databases. A Metromix entertainment site we will launch has dozens of details on thousands of venues: hours, charges, menu items, locations, style, photos -- pretty much whatever goes into a person's decision to visit. Databases make it all searchable, If the information was just contained in the usual way -- in chunky pargraphs -- it be irretrievable in any kind of useful way. So, it is all -- even the photographs -- in the columns and rows of a database. In fact, the Metromix user interface pulls data from several different databases simultaneously. As the meeting broke up, one editor said that databases have become much essential for what we do. The other said that the spreadsheet program Excel should be as widely known and used as Word. I asked, "So, Excel is the new Word?" They agreed. Add comment (1)
Karen (May 14, 2010 3:24:53 AM)
Very interesting but I think you are probably right. The searchability feature of Excel makes it a much better tool than word for this sort of task |
 The Best of Ask the Recruiter: Thousands of journalists Poynter Online looking for answers to career questions. How do you get ahead? What should you ask in an interview? Or insist on in a salary negotiation? What is the future for news media? The best have gone into this book. Each chapter contains an essay by a guest recruiter or journalist with experience in newspapers, TV, radio, online or academia. So, through the questions of your inquisitive peers, get a recruiter's eye view of managing your career. >Buy it
 Breaking In is the insider's guide to landing — and acing — your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty news recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed to the book. >Buy it
 Bringing the News Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys." If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.) >Buy it
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